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Target Audience: Year 5-6 (Stage 3)
Subject Area: Personal Development, Health and Personal Education
Strand: Personal Health Choices
Substrands:
  • Decision Making
  • Nutrition
  • Active Lifestyle

Outcome: PHS3.12 Explains the consequences of personal lifestyle choices.
Indicators:
  • Describes the factors that influence personal health choices, eg family, friends, religion, culture, environment
  • Values the importance of physical fitness to personal health
  • Appreciates the need to participate in physical activity
  • Devises strategies to achieve personal active lifestyle goals
  • Applies decision making process when choosing recreational pursuit

Board of Studies


Considerations
Making decisions
15 minutes
Teacher should be providing guidance and assistance to each group through encouragement
  • Hold small group discussions about decisions
  • Make a list of the decisions each group member has made today about food and about involvement in activity
  • Class discussion about results

30 minutes
Using these three points as a guide students are to create a poster to inform peers about good decision making
  • What is the decision making process?
  • What are some of the influences on decision making?
How can we support others in decision making?



Nutrition
15 minutes
  • Students will watch video "Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages"
  • Students research to create their own definition of
    • a) Physical wellbeing
    • b) Emotional wellbeing
    • c) Mental wellbeing
    • d) Spiritual wellbeing
    • e) Social wellbeing
Resources
  • Dictionary
  • Thesaurus
  • Internet

Class Discussion
10 minutes
  • What does it mean to be healthy?
  • Discuss the concept of balance between the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social wellbeing
  • Summarise the main discussion points by creating a class definition of health

Dietary Guidelines for Children
20 minutes
  • Students read through the dietary guidelines for children (two pages)
  • Create a pamphlet to promote the guidelines in groups of four


Active Lifestyle
Class discussion 10 minutesWhat is an active lifestyle?Why is it important to have an active lifestyle?What are some active lifestyle activities you would enjoy?

Group work10 minutesUsing the headings: immediate/longterm, physical, social, emotional and mental;
  • Brainstorm the effects physical activity has on the body


As a class10 minutes
Create a final report, highlighting the effects that physical activity has on the body


Group work15 minutesDevise an advertisement for television, radio or print to influence the consumer to participate in new active lifestyle activity